{"id":11914,"date":"2010-05-04T17:54:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T00:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11914"},"modified":"2010-05-06T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T15:26:30","slug":"a-salute-to-all-the-unprofessionals-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11914\/a-salute-to-all-the-unprofessionals-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"A Salute To All The Unprofessionals Out There"},"content":{"rendered":"

The word unprofessional has no meaning.\u00a0 It’s designed to be vaguely insulting, and to be an ad hominem <\/em>attack on someone that inconveniences a busy Realtor in the course of his or her day.\u00a0 Nobody wants to be unprofessional. <\/em>Folks sling it around on twitter on a daily basis.\u00a0 Follow the #RTB<\/a> hashtag for details.\u00a0 It’s an insult below the surface: any agent\u00a0 that doesn’t immediately cater to the irrelevant demands of a competitor <\/em>risks being called unprofessional.\u00a0 When I was a mortgage broker, I was first called “unprofessional” when I didn’t want to listen to the pitch of a dumpy salesperson that walked unbidden into my office. \u00a0 <\/em> I see it coming: another coercive assault on innovation, on hustle, on passion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anything that rocks the boat is to be called unprofessional.
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Unprofessional.
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What, then, is a professional<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0 Congenial, and cowed.\u00a0 They wear the yokes of the big brokers proudly, making nice at the big agent meetings and the Barcamps and the other exercises in irrelevance that show that they are people people. <\/em>These professionals sell but few houses, but dog gone it, they do it in a way that their other professionals don’t object to.\u00a0 They attend their board meetings and they advocate rulings that help one another…and in the name of more standards (for others), they add paperwork and tedium to the job of representing buyers, sellers and borrowers.<\/p>\n

And if you glance askance at any idea, you run the risk of being called unethical <\/em>in addition to unprofessional.<\/em><\/p>\n

The real aim, of course is to have a cushy job that requires little.\u00a0 To not adapt and help.\u00a0 To innovate so very slowly, and of course to prevent anyone else\u00a0 from entering into their space.\u00a0 Of course, they all stick together.\u00a0 People are professionals because they say they are, not because they care about their clients, innovation or anything else.\u00a0 What is a real estate professional?\u00a0 Probably someone that sells 3 homes in a calendar year and returns calls 40% of the time.\u00a0 That’s probably a higher standard than 80% of the NAR reaches.<\/p>\n

Our #RTB <\/a>movement (which other word often precedes “movement”) Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The word unprofessional has no meaning.\u00a0 It’s designed to be vaguely insulting, and to be an ad hominem attack on someone that inconveniences a busy Realtor in the course of his or her day.\u00a0 Nobody wants to be unprofessional. Folks sling it around on twitter on a daily basis.\u00a0 Follow the #RTB hashtag for details.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1123,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1123\/whats-the-rate\/","url_meta":{"origin":11914,"position":0},"title":"What’s The Rate?","author":"Brian Brady","date":"March 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"There are so many ways we were taught in mortgage sales training to answer that question: 1) Well...that depends on your...credit...income...equity...purpose for the loan , etc. 2) What rate are you trying to get? 3) It would be unprofessional of me to diagnose your problem...blah...blah...blah I realize that when a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2454,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2454\/can-todd-kaufman-tell-me-what-to-say-and-not-say\/","url_meta":{"origin":11914,"position":1},"title":"Can Loudoun County Assessor Todd Kaufman tell me what to say and not to say?","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"December 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Can Loudoun County Assessor Todd Kaufman Tell Me What to Say and Not Say? 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